Frank Silver, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Screening for Dysphagia in Adult Patients with Stroke: Assessing the Accuracy of Informal Detection.
Dysphagia · 2018
Rapid Assessment and Treatment of Transient Ischemic Attacks and Minor Stroke in Canadian Emergency Departments
Stroke · 2015
Good is not Good Enough: The Benchmark Stroke Door-to-Needle Time Should be 30 Minutes
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences · 2014

All 7 publications

Latest funding

Stroke Metrics for quAlity, Reporting, and Translation in the implementation of EndoVascular Thrombectomy (SMART-EVT)
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$1,325,008
Canadian Stroke Network (2006 Renewal Competition)
NSERC · 2013 · Co-investigator
$500,000
Canadian Stroke Network (2006 Renewal Competition)
NSERC · 2009 · Co-investigator
$8,361,135

All 3 grants and awards

7 publications.

01

Screening for Dysphagia in Adult Patients with Stroke: Assessing the Accuracy of Informal Detection.

Sherman V, Flowers H, Kapral MK, Nicholson G, Silver F, Martino R

Dysphagia201824 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00455-018-9885-8 PMID: 29497830

02

Rapid Assessment and Treatment of Transient Ischemic Attacks and Minor Stroke in Canadian Emergency Departments

Kamal N, Hill MD, Blacquiere DPV, Boulanger J-M, Boyle K, Buck B, Butcher K, Camden M-C, Casaubon LK, Côté R

Stroke201524 citations

DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.115.010454

03

Good is not Good Enough: The Benchmark Stroke Door-to-Needle Time Should be 30 Minutes

Kamal N, Benavente O, Boyle K, Buck B, Butcher K, Casaubon LK, Côté R, Demchuk AM, Deschaintre Y, Dowlatshahi D

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences201458 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2014.41 PMID: W1985177747

04

The Toronto Bedside Swallowing Screening Test (TOR-BSST)

Martino R, Silver F, Teasell R, Bayley M, Nicholson G, Streiner DL, Diamant NE

Stroke2009344 citations

DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.107.510370

05

Development and implementation of the Ontario Stroke System: the use of evidence.

Cameron JI, Rappolt S, Lewis M, Lyons R, Warner G, Silver F

International journal of integrated care200710 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5334/ijic.201 PMID: 17786179

06

Sex Differences in Stroke Care and Outcomes

Moira K. Kapral, Jiming Fang, Michael D. Hill, Frank L. Silver, Janice A. Richards, Cheryl S. Jaigobin, Angela Man-Wei Cheung

Stroke2005397 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1161/01.str.0000157662.09551.e5 PMID: 15731476

07

Prediction of hemorrhage in acute ischemic stroke using permeability MR imaging.

Kassner A, Roberts T, Taylor K, Silver F, Mikulis D

AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2005103 citationsOpen Access

PMID: 16219824

Stroke Metrics for quAlity, Reporting, and Translation in the implementation of EndoVascular Thrombectomy (SMART-EVT)

Co-investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Yu, Amy Ying Xin; Kapral, Moira K

Keywords: Administrative Data; Cerebrovascular Diseases; Endovascular Thrombectomy; Health Services Research; Outcomes Research; Population-Based Analyses; Revascularization; Sex-Specific Analyses; Stroke

$1,325,008

Canadian Stroke Network (2006 Renewal Competition)

Co-investigatorNSERC2013Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Hakim, Antoine

$500,000

Canadian Stroke Network (2006 Renewal Competition)

Co-investigatorNSERC2009Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Hakim, Antoine

$8,361,135

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Dariush Dowlatshahi and Dar Dowlatshahi: 514 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Michael Hill: 484 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 152 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Dar Dowlatshahi: 152 shared papers
Michael Hill and Dar Dowlatshahi: 151 shared papers
Michael Hill and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 150 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Dar Dowlatshahi: 126 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 124 shared papers
Michael Hill and Brian Buck: 101 shared papers
Michael Hill and Alexandre Poppe: 96 shared papers
Eric Smith and Michael Hill: 94 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Alexandre Poppe: 85 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Michael Hill: 85 shared papers
Michael Hill and Noreen Kamal: 81 shared papers
Brian Buck and Dar Dowlatshahi: 74 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Brian Buck: 72 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Gustavo Saposnik: 68 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Gustavo Saposnik: 58 shared papers
Dar Dowlatshahi and Gustavo Saposnik: 58 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Alexandre Poppe: 53 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Eric Smith: 50 shared papers
Moira Kapral and Gustavo Saposnik: 48 shared papers
Eric Smith and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 45 shared papers
Michael Hill and Moira Kapral: 45 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and David Gladstone: 34 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and David Gladstone: 33 shared papers
David Gladstone and Dar Dowlatshahi: 33 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Moira Kapral: 30 shared papers
Ashkan Shoamanesh and Eric Smith: 29 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Noreen Kamal: 28 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Gary Hunter: 28 shared papers
Dar Dowlatshahi and Gary Hunter: 28 shared papers
Ashkan Shoamanesh and Dar Dowlatshahi: 26 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Gary Hunter: 26 shared papers
Ashkan Shoamanesh and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 24 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Albert Jin: 23 shared papers
Dar Dowlatshahi and Albert Jin: 23 shared papers
Michael Hill and Albert Jin: 22 shared papers
David Mikulis and Andrea Kassner: 18 shared papers
Eric Smith and Noreen Kamal: 17 shared papers
Ashkan Shoamanesh and Wes Oczkowski: 15 shared papers
Angela Cheung and Moira Kapral: 15 shared papers
Wes Oczkowski and David Gladstone: 14 shared papers
Wes Oczkowski and Albert Jin: 13 shared papers
Rosemary Martino and Moira Kapral: 12 shared papers
Rosemary Martino and Gustavo Saposnik: 11 shared papers
Michael Hill and Colleen Norris: 8 shared papers
Eddy Lang and Noreen Kamal: 8 shared papers
Eddy Lang and Dariush Dowlatshahi: 8 shared papers
Eddy Lang and Dar Dowlatshahi: 8 shared papers
David Lloyd Streiner and Rosemary Martino: 5 shared papers
David Mikulis and Richard Swartz: 5 shared papers
Colleen Norris and Noreen Kamal: 5 shared papers
David Lloyd Streiner and Angela Cheung: 4 shared papers
David Mikulis and Rosemary Martino: 3 shared papers
Eric Smith and Angela Cheung: 3 shared papers
Michael Hill and Frank Silver: 3 shared papers
Colleen Norris and Moira Kapral: 3 shared papers
David Lloyd Streiner and Richard Swartz: 2 shared papers
Wes Oczkowski and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Andrew Demchuk and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
David Mikulis and Cheryl Jaigobin: 2 shared papers
Rosemary Martino and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Richard Swartz and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Eddy Lang and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Noreen Kamal and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Moira Kapral and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Dariush Dowlatshahi and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Alexandre Poppe and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Brian Buck and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Dar Dowlatshahi and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Gustavo Saposnik and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
Albert Jin and Frank Silver: 2 shared papers
David Lloyd Streiner and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Ashkan Shoamanesh and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
David Mikulis and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Eric Smith and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Angela Cheung and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Angela Cheung and Cheryl Jaigobin: 1 shared paper
Michael Hill and Cheryl Jaigobin: 1 shared paper
Andrea Kassner and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Colleen Norris and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
David Gladstone and Frank Silver: 1 shared paper
Frank Silver and Cheryl Jaigobin: 1 shared paper
Frank Silver and Gary Hunter: 1 shared paper

Department of Medicine
DCNS
Department of Medical Imaging
Département de neurosciences
Medicine Dept
Neurology and Neurosciences
Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2015

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Silver, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Screening for Dysphagia in Adult Patients with Stroke: Assessing the Accuracy of Informal Detection." (2018), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]